The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-05-23
MIR. o'sRIEN's MARROW ESCAPE.
How He Was Saved from the Mob
at Kingston.
HowlIng Enemies Thrown Off the
Scent.
His Subsequent Movements-visIt to
Niagara.

KINGSTON, Ont, May 21.-To describe a
little more fully the nature Of the savage at
tack on William 0'Brien in Kingston last
night, the situation Of the streets through
which he passed and finally escaped must be
understood. The Burnett House, where the
party stayed, is on Ontario street, which is
on one side Of square whose other sides
are Johnston, Wellington and Clarence
streets Leaving the hotel, the party turned
to the right, along Ontario street, to the
right again, up Johnston street a little above
Wellington street is the rink where the meet
ing was held. When Mr.. O'Brien came out,
ne walked along Johnston street amid a
shower Of stones and brickpats and the yell
ing OF the Orangemen to kill him, amid
shouts and threats On turning the corner
into Wellington street the mobs nearly caught
hold of him. Morris Hogan, a member of
branch No. 4S3 of the Irish Catholic Beney-
oient Union Of America. was at his side, and
Michael Sullivan, seeing the danger, forced
Mr.. O'Brien to the wall and let the crowd of
sympathizers come between him and the
bricks. "Give me you hat" shouted Hogan,
at the same time dragging off Mr.. 0'Brien's
SIX M nat and clapping his, own soft hat on
MT. OBrien's head instead. There he isr'
There he isw They're changing hats p
Watch him" Kill himr' now broke
forth from the Orangemen, who rushed on
the sidewalk with large sticks, and bent
their heads to allow their comrades in the
middle of the street to stone away. Just
here on Wellington street there was little
alley between st. Patricks Hall and the
residence of an Orangeman named John
Donnelly. Hogan pushed O'Brien in there
and fell on the top Of him, closing the little
into Donnelly's back kitchen, which was
dark and tenantless. The Orangemen,
dumbfounded and confused, knew not
where they were. Then w. p. Kllcanny, a
Nationalist, saw ex-Alderman Robert Gard
ner, also Nationalist, in front of the crowd,
Kilcanny, intending to throw the Orange
men ON false scent. The ruse was com
pletely successful. The Orangemen followed
Gardner, who ran for his lie. He doubled
into William street, which runs parallel
liam Dutf's house. The orangemen now
lost all knowledge of the whereabouts of
their intended victim, and started down
toward Ontario street to the hotel where
they believed he was, the windows of which
they smashed with yolley after yolley of
stones. When the excitement had calmed
down and the streets were partly cleared
MIR. Hogan brought Mr.. 0'Brien across to
the house of Peter Deylin. a cabman ON
the opposite side of Wellington street.
where he remained until near mid
night. when he started in safety
for home with Messrs. Hogan and Deylin
who were the heroes of the hour, and Mr.
O'Brien thanked them for having saved his
life He afterwaTd told the mayor that he
would swear an information against James
Marshall, the local Orange leader, for having
led the murderous attack on his life, and
Stephen O'Brien, young lawyer from the
neighboring city of Belleville, has the matter
in hand. Marshall was in front Of the mob
and carried out the threat which he had
made on the previous evening at the dinner
.IndnQ Mr(rnira fHharp hof hn
said that he had only to touch an electric
wire and 100000 0rangemen would invade
the city to drive out Mr.. O'Brien. Whether
he touched the wire or not cannot be said,
but at all events 200 Orangemen marched in
from the country Friday morning and Wis
tied the local Orange lodge, where they
drilled and plotted. As they stood on the
opposite side of the street with sticks and
stones they looked like compact band. well
organized, which subsequent events showed
The Princess of Wales Own Regiment, $50
strong, under command Of Maj. Smith, who,
by the way, was not seen on the spot during
the night, marched here and there, cheering
for the Queen and kissing O'Brien. This
was one section OF the force which Mayor
Carson said was on hand to protect Mr..
OBrien. Most of them are Orangemen, and
all the policemen are Orangemen, with the
exception of Constable Small, who was sent
to do duty in another part of the town. He
helmet saved him from injury. Constables
Burnett, Mckay and Craig were also hit.
and some others got ugly cuts. As p. Nolan
was knocked senseless with blow, the
mob shouted, Where are the American re-
porters ?" xiii them.' "Knock them
down." But the American reporters es-
capped this time. The pretence to protect
Mr.. O'Brien after the Orangemen had clear
ed the streets, partially wrecked the hotel
and demolished the Canadian Freeman Office
on Brock street-destroying $500 worth
Of type-A,and e,aannd the offer Of the
to bring out the artillery, was so supremely
ridiculous and looked so like CHASTITY joke
taat it fairly took Mr.. O'Brien's breath away
in disgust. 1t was adding insult to injury,
and Mr.. O'Brien's pale face flushed with an
ger as he listened to what certainly seemed
to him taunting offer. though, of couase,
the mayor did not mean 1t in any such sense.
The lrishmen of Kingston made up
purse Of $1,000 and presented it to Mr..
O'Brien, but he refused to take it for him
self, and said he would hand it over to the
eviction fund when he should reach Ireland
The party left Kingston at $50 o'clock by the
steamer Maud, and arrived at Cape Vincent,
New York, at 10 o'clock. From there the
journey to Hamilton was continued by the
afternoon train on the Rome, WateTtoWn
and Ogdensburg railway, which connects
with the New York Central Mr.. 0'Brien
will stay at Niagara falls tonight and
tomorrow, andwill be in Hamilton Monday.
NIAGARA FALLS, May 23.-O'Brien kept
to his bed all day tsday, under the advice Of
physicians. The doctors stated O'Brien
was suffering from symptoms of
pleurisy, and feared he was likely TO be con-
fined to his bed for some days. The stone
thrown at him at Toronto struck his left
side. Late this evening O'Brien was no bet
ter, and was rather feverish. Notwthstand-
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